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19.
(78)
What Would Happen Without the American Farmer
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Rico, John
[941]
[RICO-1978-941]
UNCLE SAM'S BACKBONE - When Edwin Markham walked from his Lagoon Valley home to the schools in Vacaville before the turn of the century, he saw first-hand the toiling farmers in the area, which no doubt inspired him in later years to write his immortal poem, "The Man With the Hoe."
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Vacaville life in the '20s was picturesque
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Delaplane, Kristin
[426]
[ECHOS-1999-426]
Roberta Gates Ormaas traces her Vacaville heritage back to the 1850s when both sets of grandparents settled on ranches. Her paternal grandparents had the G.M. Gates Ranch in Lagoon Valley. Her maternal grandfather, John Montgomery, was a Methodist minister and had a ranch where Monte Vista and Eldridge meet today [...]
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County rich with opportunity, thefts
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Delaplane, Kristin
[391]
[ECHOS-1998-391]
In 1869, horse thieves were the bane of society. Early in the year a couple of mares were stolen from Lagoon Valley and then the most valuable two horses of 18 were taken from Mosley's Ranch near Vallejo.
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Vaca fruit industry blossoms in late 1800s
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Delaplane, Kristin
[260]
[ECHOS-1995-260]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council and the Vacaville Museum. First of two parts The fruit industry thrived in the Vacaville Township as the area's major economy between 1875 and 1915. By the turn of the century, half of all California's deciduous fruit was produced in the Vaca, Pleasants and Lagoon valleys and adjacent hills in Putah Creek and English Hills.
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(78)
Vaca, Pena relationship turns to trouble
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Bowen, Jerry
[648]
[WAYITWAS-2006-648]
In my last column I ended with a brief discussion of the conditions that the Vacas and Penas lived under in their newly built homes in Lagoon Valley.
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(77)
Local's legacy: lengthy land litigation
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Bowen, Jerry
[177]
[WAYITWAS-2003-177]
At the northwest corner of Lagoon Valley is Bassford Canyon where the descendants of Joseph Bassford still occupy the old homestead, keeping their heritage alive and well.
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Ole Nelson's arduous trek to Solano
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[145]
[WAYITWAS-2002-145]
The Vacaville Museum recently received a wonderful family history chronicling Ole Ansok Nelson's life from his native Norway to his farm in Lagoon Valley.
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(76)
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G. M. Gates Ranch House on Pleasants Valley Road
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Rhyme and reason behind early Solano poet
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Bowen, Jerry
[544]
[WAYITWAS-2004-544]
I don't suppose that most newcomers to Vacaville have ever heard of Edwin Markham. Some may have heard of the poem, "Man With a Hoe," but don't know that a man who once lived in the now-contentious Lagoon Valley wrote it. So, let's look at a little history of Charles Edwin Anson Markham and some interesting contradictions.
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1971
Abernathy house in Suisun Valley
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